A regularly recurring question in our Facebook Fluorescent Mineral Group is the differences between the various wollastonites found the the Ogdensburg area (areas around Franklin NJ). If you are a serious Franklin collector you can almost identify what boulder at...
This an old short article originally posted around 2016. Also available on UV SYSTEMS website: https://www.uvsystems.com/blogs/news/long-wave-filters-are-now-more-expensive-400-lw-filter-glass-is-no-longer-made By Don Newsome; UV SYSTEMS, Inc. Kokomo Opalescent Glass...
Ever want to store your glow rocks in boxes, but don't want to pay for flats? Do what I do - collect copy paper boxes at your place of business. Put the bottom of the box into the lid, then trace around it with a pencil. Use a carpet knife and yardstick to cut along...
Hungary has some really outstanding localities for unique hyalites: Monok, Gyöngyössolymos, and recently Tarcal. Specimens from this locality tend to be the biggest, glassiest and the best from Hungary! The downside is that the andesite quarry uses explosives, which...
Table of Contents Long Lake Zinc Mine, Parham, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada by Jon Amsterdam 1–5 LLZM Photo Gallery by — 4–5 Silver Crater Mine, Faraday Township, Ontario, Canada: A Historic Uranium Prospect and Source of Exquisite Betafite Crystals by Sean...
Table of Contents Wollastonite from Gouverneur Talc Company #4 Quarry, Harrisville, Lewis County, New York by Howie Green 1–3 The Valentine Quarry Gallery by Howie Green 4–8 Worldwide Prehnite Gallery by Howie Green 9–10 Rose Road—The WSK and the PDM by Howie Green...
Table of Contents George—A Bird for All Seasons / New Jersey’s Other “Others” by Howie Green 1–4 The Fluorescent Minerals of the Hoboken Serpentine Body by Howie Green 5–6 Informal Observations on Some Fluorescent Minerals of Castle Point by Edward W. Johnson 7–8 New...
A presentation on COLOR & ENERGY... Learn the scientific concepts behind why rocks glow in the dark. This video provides an in-depth look into the science behind fluorescent minerals, presented by Bob Oblack. It covers the science of color and energy, luminescence and...
Table of Contents From the Editor—On the Other Hand... by Howie Green 1–2 The Canfield Phosphate Mine by Stephen Tapsak 3–7 Lake Valhalla Diopside by Bob Batic 7–10 Beemerville Sodalite by Howie Green 11–14 The Lime Crest Quarry, Sparta, NJ by Steven M. Kuitems, DMD...
Table of Contents THE FLUORESCENT MINERALS OF BROKEN HILL, NSW by Eric von Werstak 1–7 HOKKAIDOITE; A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION by Captain G. Vella 8–11 FLUORESCENT CALCITE FROM PAT AGONIA by Andrés Oteiza 12–21 THE SANTA CLARA VALLEY GEM & MINERAL SOCIETY ANNUAL...